Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One remedy that 's being proposed calls for drastic action now . |
| 2 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 3 | It was this seat that was being repaired with new wood , which was then stained and waxed . |
| 4 | Well I became aware of the University of Sussex when the Gardener Centre first opened I think , because at that time I was working at the Arts Council of Great Britain and it was erm an innovative scheme which attracted a great deal of national interest , and we were naturally invited down to have a look at it , both the design and the programme that was being planned for the opening season at that time . |
| 5 | Bear in mind that is is possible to play figs 2 and 3 together , on one guitar , as double stops ! |
| 6 | As they oxygen concentration that 's being produced , gets very high it slows it down , it slows it and it stops . |
| 7 | It is difficult for them to understand the fear that is being expressed unless they share it themselves , when there will be a mutual clinging . |
| 8 | Whatever the state of the tea that was being brewed , he still had his cup . |
| 9 | First of all my physical world constrains me in so far as every other car will be travelling on the left-hand side and my progress might be somewhat impeded if I chose otherwise ; secondly , it is a rule that is being followed by every driver . |
| 10 | There er erm other er matter that er erm I er wanted to mention erm if only to get the word sustainability on to the tape that is being recorded on the |
| 11 | But it 's a fact that the vast majority of chairmen do n't even talk to their managers about the workload that 's being placed on players . |
| 12 | The Ecumenical Centre for Human Rights in Haïti has called for support from the world 's press to focus international attention on the violence that is being used to muzzle the country 's media . |
| 13 | The violence that is being thrown at teenagers , and which they appear to love , may seem less palatable . |
| 14 | Weldon studied crabs in Plymouth harbour that were being forced to live in water that was muddied by human activity . |
| 15 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 16 | Will he consider setting up in Moscow a unit composed of people from British industry , from the British Government and from the British-Soviet Chamber of Commerce to try to help the Russians receive the aid that is being held from them by the stupidity of their bureaucracy ? |
| 17 | We must recognise that they are getting a raw deal and are being victimised by the Government . |
| 18 | This is partly because hostilities now arouse political opposition and are be no means fully approved of by all the British people or even all British authorities . |
| 19 | This is partly because hostilities now arouse political opposition and are be no means fully approved of by all the British people or even all British authorities . |
| 20 | Kitzbuehel and Are , his earlier successes , were hardly that last season : Kitzbuehel was truncated because of poor snow and Are 's fine course was reduced to mashed potato by wind and rain . |
| 21 | In the library are 35 generic classes which have already been accepted by the industry and are being customised by vendors to suit their applications . |
| 22 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 23 | There is a story , he wrote , there is a story that is being told . |
| 24 | But we are concerned here with books in which the jokes are , more or less , the whole of the matter , inextricably bound up with the story that is being told . |
| 25 | I 'm here for a case that 's being heard in the Appeal Court … ’ |
| 26 | It is difficult , for any misjudgement in the planning by the teacher can seriously affect the validity of the parallel that is being drawn . |
| 27 | Was that what this was all about ? ) and into the ante-room/office that was being used as the base for the investigation . |
| 28 | Is it really feasible that at the sort of level that 's being talked about , be it your level or the level being put forward by some of the objectors to the structure plan , the new settlement could actually hope to provide a good level of comparison shopping , for example ? |
| 29 | The owner of an animal sanctuary that 's being forced to close down says some of the animals there will have to be killed . |
| 30 | By a letter of 17 October 1991 those solicitors asked the local authority to keep them informed about the progress of the assessment that was being undertaken of the father and his partner . |